The Golden Age of Basketball

() "You have to understand the characteristics of every player on the court, whether it is an opponent or a teammate. If you know that James Worthy's mid-range shooting percentage is lower than that of Clyde, you won't be in the same position when he shoots. Pounce on it!"

Gan Guoyang, who was forced to leave the game due to two fouls in the first quarter, sat on the bench and listened to Ramsay Chunchun's teaching. He felt that he learned more from Ramsay in this game than the previous three months combined.

It seems that a lot of experience can only be accumulated quickly in competitions, especially in competitions with strong teams.

Gan Guoyang, who sat off the court and watched the players on the court continue to play, thought about his performance in this half of the quarter, and found that the game was always under the control of the Lakers.

The Lakers not only maintain the lead in the score, but also have a tactical advantage, forcing the Blazers to make adjustments and changes. The Lakers rely on the strong personal abilities of the players to respond to all changes without change.

At this time, the Blazers' offense changed again because of Gan Guoyang's end. Kenny Carr came on as a substitute. He and Sampson completely pulled away from the inside to open up space for the Blazers to break through from the outside.

Due to Drexler's playing, the Blazers' outside breakthrough ability has been enhanced.

Drexler's breakthrough starts very quickly, but his breakthrough does not change much. Whether it is sudden change of direction or sudden stop and speed change, it is not his strong point.

The characteristic of his breakthrough is to rush in with his head sullen, and he is easily double-teamed or intercepted.

But Drexler has a huge advantage. Although he likes to lower his head when he breaks through, it doesn't mean he doesn't look at his teammates.

On the contrary, Drexler has a wide field of vision and excellent passing awareness, and his passing is definitely at the level of a starting point guard.

Correspondingly, Vandeweghe is an excellent mid-range and long-range shooter. At the same time, because of his height and weight advantages, he is also very threatening in the low post. His left hand on the left side of the baseline cuts for a layup very quickly, making it hard to guard against. Very defensive.

During the period when Gan Guoyang was off the field, the Blazers relied on Drexler's breakthrough points and Vandeweghe's personal attack power to continue their firepower.

The Lakers are getting faster and faster. After attacking from the first few positions, they are like a sports car in 5th gear, and there is nothing that can stop their fast break.

If there is, then Gan Guoyang, who had delayed their fast break before, has been dismissed and sat on the bench.

As James Worthy received a pass from Johnson in the fast break and dunked the ball with one hand, only Vandeweghe was left at a loss under the basket, and the first quarter of the game was over.

The Lakers played extremely smoothly in the first quarter, shooting 70.00% from the field, and scored 38 points in a single quarter, while the Blazers on the opposite side were struggling to catch up. Relying on the performance of Vandeweghe and Drexler, they barely pulled the score By 26 points, they fell behind by 12 points in the first quarter.

"You see, if you are on the court, you can definitely bring more contributions to the team, so you have to pay attention to controlling yourself. Only when you control yourself can you control the game." Ramsey looked at the 12-point difference, and Gan Guoyang on the side said.

"Only by controlling yourself can you control the game..." When Gan Guoyang heard this sentence again, he thought of Bill Russell and Nate Thurmond. They all said similar things to him.

To this day, Gan Guoyang still has no way to truly comprehend the true meaning of this sentence, and the two fouls in the first quarter taught him a lesson again.

The second quarter continued quickly, with both Magic Johnson and Kareem replaced by Michael Cooper and Bob McAdoo.

Cooper is a treasure picked up by the Lakers in the low draft. Although his talent is average, he has long limbs and is a good defensive material.

In the Lakers, he has always played the role of a big lock on the outside, sharing the pressure for the magician and Worthy. Riley sent him to play, naturally to let him suppress Drexler and prevent him from easily breaking through and splitting the ball.

As a former first-line superstar, McAdoo is still young and can continue to contribute firepower to the Lakers' inside line when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is off the court.

The Blazers also entered the first rotation. This year, the same batch of rookies as Gan Guoyang, No. 14 Steven Colter.

On the first day of training at the University of Portland, Colter was severely abused by Drex in a three-on-three fast break training, but after three months of training and several games of training, he Has successfully gained Ramsey's trust and entered the Trail Blazers' rotation.

He is the kind of point guard that Ramsey likes. After four years of college training, he is familiar with all the routines, obedient, makes no mistakes, and resolutely implements the coach's strategy.

His playing style is as lifeless as his shriveled face and dead fish eyes, but he will never be the worrying guy on the court. He looks like he has played in the league for 10 years. his looks.

But being well-behaved does not mean that he is mediocre and incompetent. He can also stand up when necessary.

Ramsey knows that the second team often has the ability to fight chaos. At this time, a spoiler is needed on the field, a player who disrupts the rhythm of both sides.

Colter completed Ramsey's task very well and began to "fight".

First, at the beginning of the second quarter, he relied on Carl's cover to make a mid-range shot to open the scoring. Then he broke Scott's ball and succeeded in a fast break layup.

Although Vandeweghe was still unable to contain James Worthy's low singles on the defensive end, but soon Colter used an emergency stop jumper in a quick counterattack, narrowing the score gap between the two sides to 8 points.

At this time, the opening time is less than 1 minute.

"Oh, Colter plowed the Lakers quickly in 1 minute, and the Lakers' defense seemed to be turned over." Zeke Hearn continued his commentary, in English "Colt (colter) "It means a plowshare.

"Nice job Colter! But watch your defense! Lead the field!" Ramsey will never be satisfied with his players.

With Johnson off the floor, the Lakers were left with two shooting guards, Byron Scott and Michael Cooper, to jointly control the ball, and the Lakers' offense slowed down instantly.

At this time, the Lakers' main attack points are the low post Worthy and the high post McAdoo.

Although Worthy is a small forward, his low-post singles ability is really terrible. Gan Guoyang watched his fierce positioning and quick turn around, and he had to admire Worthy's powerful low-post ability.

And their backup center, McAdoo, has a beautiful turnaround jumper. He and Worthy have a low post and a high post, which makes the Blazers' defense lose sight of the other. A 12-foot jumper hit, widening the gap between the two teams to 10 points.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was sitting on the bench like an ant on a hot pot, eager to play, he couldn't just watch his opponent wreak havoc inside the Blazers.

Mitchell Sampson has always been strong in offense and weak in defense. After McAdoo was pulled to the outside position, he hesitated even more, whether he should follow him or not.

When Kenny Carr switched to defend Worthy, he also had no way to stop Worthy. Worthy's 6-foot-8 height and excellent wingspan were completely unafraid of power forwards' defense.

"Let me go to Mr. Ramsay!" Gan Guoyang shouted from the side.

"Calm down Gan, and obey the coach's command." Adelman discouraged him. He had never met a player like Gan Guoyang, who asked the coach to replace him on the bench.

Ramsay didn't care. He knew that Gan Guoyang was eager to fight, so he just shook his head and signaled Gan Guoyang to wait a little longer.

The situation on the court was in a stalemate. The Blazers had nothing to do with Worthy and McAdoo. At the same time, Scott and Cooper made cold shots from time to time on the outside.

Similarly, although Drexler was entangled by Cooper, Vandeweghe and Colter still played well, helping the Blazers to cling to the score. The gap between the two teams has always remained at about 10 points.

"Beep!" The referee's whistle sounded, and Colter caused a foul by Rambis when he broke through, and Colter wanted to stand on the free throw line.

If these two free throws are scored, the Blazers will narrow the score to less than 10 points again, and the score between the two sides will become 44 to 52, with 7 minutes left before the end of the first half.

At this time, Gan Guoyang finally saw Ramsey pointing at himself, signaling him to play, and asked him to replace Sampson.In addition, Ramsey also replaced Vandeweghe and Drexler for rookies Jerome Cosey and Jim Paxson.

At the same time, the Lakers also replaced Rambis and Scott, and Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returned to battle.

"Hello, Gan, I hope you can stay on the court for a while longer." Gan Guoyang, who stood on the edge of the three-second zone and waited for Colter to make a free throw, met his old enemy Bob McAdoo again.

"I bet he will return to the bench again within 2 minutes because of the third foul." Worthy on the side is also adding fuel.

Gan Guoyang, who was caught between the two, didn't say a word. At this moment, he put all his attention on Colter who made the free throw. When the two people next to him talked, he buzzed like a fly.

Colter missed the first free throw. The shot was obviously heavy and hit the neck of the basket.

For the second ball, Colter adjusted it a bit, but Gan Guoyang felt that the ball was too light as soon as he shot it.

Gan Guoyang rushed ahead of everyone and rushed into the three-second zone, and the ball hit the front of the basket.Gan Guoyang

Gan Guoyang was squeezed by three Lakers players and couldn't take off, but he still took advantage of his wingspan and was the first to hit the basketball among a bunch of hands, and flicked the ball back.

Then he grabbed the basketball first in the air, but he didn't take the ball down, but the moment he got the ball and landed, he took off again holding the ball and shot a frontal basket.

Worthy was tightly squeezed by Gan Guoyang, McAdoo lost the bounce of his youth, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the other side was pushed away by two Trail Blazers players, so he could only watch Gan Guoyang's simple easy-ball to fill the gap for the Blazers. 2 points, 44:52, the point difference was narrowed to less than 10 points.

"You two are as slow as two shot puts hanging from your ass." After scoring, Gan Guoyang naturally would not be polite to Worthy and McAdoo, mocking them for being too slow.

"This guy's strength is really fucking great." Worthy lamented Gan Guoyang's strength in his heart. He didn't expect Gan Guoyang, a Chinese center, to be so powerful. When he was stuck just now, he felt that he couldn't fight the opponent at all.

But when the three people were burying each other, Johnson had already rushed across the half court and passed three people in a row. Under the interference of Kenny Carr, a low-handed layup with his right hand replaced by his left hand hit the ball very beautifully. Enter.

The score was pulled to 10 points again at once, and Gan Guoyang also felt the magician's horror. With a height of 6-9, when he rushed into the inside line, he was unstoppable.

This is also related to Johnson's passing ability. You don't know when, where, and how he will pass the ball. When the ball is scored, the defensive player may not know what is going on.

The Blazers can only continue to attack in positions. Ramsey decided to put the main attack point on Gan Guoyang to see if he can open the situation from the inside.

Due to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's footsteps disadvantage, Riley asked McAdoo to defend Gan Guoyang, which made Gan Guoyang excited.

"Are you ready to be beaten?" Gan Guoyang said to McAdoo while getting stuck under the basket.

"You'd better restrain yourself." McAdoo is still bitter about Gan Guoyang punching him in the chest during that training. He is also an old veteran of the NBA and a former superstar.

Gan Guoyang doesn't care about these things. In his opinion, superstars are for challenges. Whether he respects a person has nothing to do with whether he is a superstar or not.

Thurmond and Chamberlain are superstars, but Gan Guoyang respects them because he has learned a lot from them and felt their charisma.

McAdoo may not be a bad guy, but since he has competed on the court, he has to use basketball to compete.

Gan Guoyang took the ball in a low position on the right side, dribbled, observed, without double-teaming, turned over to the baseline, and hooked!

"Gan's hook was as elegant as Kareem's. His right leg was also raised, and the ball was scored! Oh, it's so beautiful!" Zeke Heinye not only praised Gan Guoyang's hook.

There is a big difference between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sky hook and ordinary hooks, that is, when the right hand hooks, the right leg will also be raised to coordinate with each other, which makes the whole look very coherent and beautiful, while ordinary hooks have no effect on the legs. Action required.

Gan Guoyang's hook is naturally very good.

"Is this feeling familiar? I think you must have been ravaged by the 'skyhook' on your head during training." Gan Guoyang did not forget to add a sentence after scoring, and ran away before McAdoo could respond.

"Great job Gan, let's defend the next one!" Drexler said.

With Vandeweghe off the field, Drexler started to play small forward, defending Worthy by him, and Johnson was handed over to Paxson.

Although Drexler is shorter than Vandeweghe and not as strong as Vandeweghe, but in terms of physical running and jumping quality, he is no worse than Worthy.

When Worthy took the ball in the low post again, it was obvious that the defender behind him was more energetic, and it seemed that he was not so easy to deal with.

But he still believed in his turning speed. After a few dribbles, he repeated his tricks, turning inside and facing the basket directly, trying to end the offense with a small throw.

But Drexler didn't take off to block the block, but played a trick, and lightly bumped Worthy from below. The referee didn't whistle for this small move. First, it was relatively loose to call fouls at that time, and second, Drexler's little tricks are stealthy.

This time, Worthy's take-off height was affected, and he lost his balance in the air, and Gan Guoyang's cap greeted him.

Worthy's ball was pushed down by Gan Guoyang before he even made a shot, and Worthy also fell to the ground with the huge force from his hand.

"Fast break, fast break!" Gan Guoyang grabbed the ball under the cover and passed it to Paxson, and the Blazers launched a fast break.

The Lakers retreated very quickly, Cooper also delayed Paxson's advance, Drexler was still on the ground, and the Blazers' fast break failed.

Gan Guoyang saw that the fast break was not successful, and seeing that the Lakers' defense was not in formation, he immediately sank to a deep position, stuck McAdoo and directly asked for a position.

Seeing this, Paxson passed a lob to Gan Guoyang.

Without any hesitation, Gan Guoyang pulled one out, turned to the baseline, turned sideways to the basket, patted the ball, and made another hook.

Go in!

McAdoo couldn't even make any effective interference, he was too old.

"Except for fouls, you will never be able to stop me!" Gan Guoyang pointed to McAdoo and told the old mvp that you are no longer the overlord of the basket.

"Bob, let me guard him," Kareem said.